I may be wrong, but I get the impression you have a home partition used by some other Linux before you installed DarynaIf so make sure that the user name and uid are the same (uid is 1000 for the first user in Ubuntu, but not in all distros)On the other hand, if this is not right you'd have more problems

I just copied my /home/bill/.pan directory to my new installation ( after renaming the directory created automatically on install - this was /.pan2 and I renamed the transferred directory accordingly) - Pan fails o see my settings regardless of whether the /,home/bill directory is named .pan or .pan2.

You should not have this kind of trouble, the config files in home should just work.Somehow I get the feeling it has to do with the renaming and/or different content in the old and new .pan folder. But if it's different versions of pan there may be a problem.Perhaps you find something in the pan site